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Rain of Gold's Prison Play

其他書名	Identity Making and Maneuvering
出版	Brigham Young University. Department of English, 2018
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aQkbuAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Critics mostly dismiss Victor Villasenor's 1991 Rain of Gold--the supposed biography of the author's father who enters the United States during the Prohibition era. Nevertheless, upon closer examination this narrative explores and erodes corroded human categories and racial reductions present in the Southwestern penal system. According to scholars in critical prison studies and critical race theory, the prison functions as a state-sanctioned method for prosecuting criminals and persecuting minority Americans. Juxtaposing Rain of Gold with these two areas of academic research, however, reveals that penitentiaries produce faulty and fallible notions of personhood that are, in part, responsible for the racialization and decimation that occur with incarceration. In resistance, Rain of Gold's protagonist challenges the carceral's ability to overdetermine identity by outmaneuvering criminal labels, redefining oppressive narratives and refusing to accept a dehumanized existence.